Aps6 Spatial Analyst

APS 6 - $88,408 - $100,378 per annum plus superannuation
- Environment Information Australia Division
- Adelaide, SA,Brisbane, QLD,Canberra, ACT,Darwin, NT,Hobart, TAS,Melbourne, VIC,Perth, WA,Sydney, NSW
- Be a part of a geospatial team that impacts real environmental outcomes and work with a motivated and professional team.
- Several positions available
- Flexible working arrangements including remote working are supported.

**Who we are**
Join the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water in Environment Information Australia, producing key environmental information on our natural assets, and championing the use of a range of data and information in decision-making to protect Australia’s natural environment, now and into the future.

Working in the Environment Data and Analysis Branch you will be part of a team that provides geospatial capability and supports the Department through the delivery of spatial data and analysis for evidence-based policy and decision making. There are several exciting opportunities across the Branch.

**The Job**
We are looking for several dynamic, highly motivated geospatial analysts at an APS6 level, who will, as part of a multi-disciplinary team:

- Provide leadership and project management across:

- the creation and analysis of environmental geospatial information using a range of sources to produce consistent authoritative national environmental data products.
- advice and oversight on geospatial infrastructure to deliver authoritative environmental information to a range of internal and external users and
- provide project leadership and well-developed communication skills to develop environmental data and tools that support decision making and reporting, with a focus on stakeholder engagement to understand key development needs.
- Provide expertise to the team in the management of geospatial data, including metadata management, and publishing and sharing data appropriately.
- Leverage geospatial capabilities to design and implement solutions, including the production of mapping products to cartographic standards, to support policy development, decision making and reporting.
- Investigate innovative technical approaches to improve the production of environmental data and tools.
- Proactively maintain positive working relationships with data providers and stakeholders.

**Please note** that this recruitment process is advertised as both an ongoing and non-ongoing position. If an offer of non-ongoing employment is made, the successful applicant would be employed for an initial period of 12 months with the possibility of extension up to a maximum period of 3 years in total. Should a non-ongoing position become ongoing then the merit pool established through this selection process, which is valid for a period of eighteen months from the date the vacancy was advertised in the Public Service Gazette, may be used to fill the vacancy on an ongoing basis.
- Skills and Capabilities_
- Demonstrated understanding of geospatial data and experience using GIS software and systems, including services, databases and tools (e.g., ESRI suite, FME, Python, SQL etc).
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills, including the ability to assess complex information and contribute to the design and development of innovative, sustainable solutions.
- Capable of working under limited direction to solve problems and deliver high quality geospatial products and services.
- Project management and organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise workloads and take responsibility to deliver projects to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to work within teams and foster collaboration, and the ability to develop productive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Well-developed workplace communication skills - oral, written and presentation - including the ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders, convey clear information to non
- technical audiences and capture/define user needs.
- Knowledge and experience_
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the production, manipulation and management of datasets and products using geospatial software (preferably ESRI suite and/or FME)
- Understand the development life cycle of data products, from data collation and analysis to documentation, metadata and publishing.
- Ability to provide administrative support for governance processes and outcomes-oriented project management to generate improved environmental data and tools for decision making and reporting.

Knowledge and/or experience in one or more of the following will be an advantage:

- Production, through compilation, of modelling and analysis, environmental geospatial data products using a range of environmental datasets.
- Application of innovative approaches to design and development of decision support tools as well as optimise and automate existing solutions.
- Experience using Web GIS (e.g., ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online) for data man